1.

REDUCCION

This policy was called reduccion, and

essentially meant a forced relocation of
small, scattered settlements into one
larger town.
2. THE DATU Datu is the title for chiefs, sovereign
princes, and monarchs in the Visayas and
Mindanao Regions of the Philippines.
SYSTEM
 3. PRINCIPALIA

The Principalía or noble class was the ruling and usually educated
upper class in the towns of Spanish Philippines, comprising the
gobernadorcillo (who had functions similar to a town mayor), and
the cabezas de barangay (heads of the barangays) who governed the
districts.
 Forced sale of local products to the
government.
4. VANDALA
5. POLO Y
SERVICIO
Polo y servicio was a practice employed by
Spanish colonizers for over 250 years that
required the forced labor of all Filipino
males from 16 to 60 years old for 40-day
periods.
 During the 19th century, the Philippines’ economic
condition gave rise to Haciendas or the “cash-crop

6. CASH-CROP economy”. Where large parts of lands would be used

for crops considered as cash-crop.
7. TABACCO
MONOPOLY
The tobacco monopoly proved to be a critical source of
government income both in Spain and throughout its
empire. Revenues earned from the tobacco monopoly
in Spain accounted for almost one-third of total
domestic public revenues.
 The Manila galleons were Spanish trading ships which for
8. THE MANILA two and a half centuries linked the Spanish Captaincy
General of the Philippines with Mexico across the Pacific
Ocean, making one or two round-trip voyages per year
ACAPULCO between the ports of Acapulco and Manila, which were both
part of New Spain.

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